Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-08-19
Aficr Them VIII n derrick.

The oil City Derrick, edited by Pat
rick Boyle, late associate editor Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, thus raises a num-
Der of boodlers from the sums of poll.
tics with derrick, so to speak, and
holds them dangling to public view
that all may inspect thcmi
"In all human probability the robbers
would have gone on with their luoiing foi
years had not newspaper, the Chicago
Nal, invaded their foul neat Rrd exposed
their robbcrics to the public District At
torneys, grand jurics aud judges sal around
like so many bumps OH log, winking ut
shameless aud notorious public robbery
until this newspaper awakened public sem
ument 10 such an extent that they were
compelled to STIR their stumps aud msti-
tuic legal inquiry. The amount these
| thieves have stolen from the taxpayers
runs into the hundreds of thousands. Me.
Garigle WAS high priest among them,
and clam who occupies the position Of
sheriff allowed him to escape just m the
pcnlcntiary doors Were ready to open
their hospihble ,ws for him. That the
so-culled officers oil the law connivcd vt
his escape there is at least ground TO sus-
pcct, as tie intricate machinery Of a city
run by public plunderers, must OF neces-
sity, include AT least n portion ot the po-
lice and judiciary. This was the state of
affairs in Cincinnati n short time ago,
when that city was garr0tted and gntted
10y the Mclean gang. John II. Mclean
the chief OF these public thieves, is now
lavlng his fat and squabbled limbs in the
surf ut Long Branch, Instead Of being
scoIrged to the trough with common
thieves and murderers Mt The Columbus
penitentiOry. His hold upon few pimps
who disgraced the public Offices In Hamil-
ton county enabled him 10 bring about n
miscarriage oil justice, and so il is the sea-
side this summer Tor him instead of the
Ohio pen. McLean's bandits IN Cincin.
natl robbed not only the public, but pri.
vate individuals M we'll, and he got his
start in the world by public and private
plumber His gang OF tonghs were muir
dcrers as well M thieves, aud the life blood
Of more than one victim il on his head.
III by any mischance any of his cutlhroats
or sandbaggers got before the courts, they
were speedily cleared by pcriured testi-
mony, or allowed TO escape as McGarigle
has done. And vet the corrupt and mbe.
cile courts allowed this sort of work to &C
on by day and by night. just so il was in
Chicago, although The business there waS
less hileous in its details, until Il newspn-
per exposed the infainy TO the world. The
MuGarigle's and the McLeans are hard t.
catch and convict, because of the low es-
tate Of the bench and the jury, and
when convicted their escape from pun
ishment becomes II public caIamity.'
With the shape of affairs in this coun
ty, as even shown by the Commission
ers' own reports for the past few years
il required even more cheek than WE
supposed the Sentinel possessed to Civ,
space to the above article last week. L
should be remembered as a well authen-
ticated fact that Sherman, Foster ant
Mclean were all three working Cincin
natl in the contest two years ago will
a single object in view, VIZ: Each as
pired to be elected to the U. S. Senate
The delegation from Hamilton county
held the balance of power. There is {
large purchasable vote in large city
Each used his own methods which is il
direct conflict with the laws of Ohio.
reporter who took in the situation few
days prior to the election, said "the re
suit was badly mixed and the larges
poll will knock the persimmons." TIL,
persimmons were knocked and the re-
suits are pretty well known to the peo
pie of Ohio who keep any track of poll
tics. Yet they are men of great wealth
brains and political influence and ther
is no law to punish them. Why?